Japanese Photojournalist Ishikawa Dies at 88

Tokyo, Aug. 23 (Jiji Press)--Japanese photojournalist Bunyo Ishikawa died of malignant lymphoma at a hospital in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, on Sunday. He was 88.

Ishikawa, a native of Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, accompanied U.S. forces as a freelance photographer and captured images from the front lines of the Vietnam War. He received a special award from the Japan Congress of Journalists for the series of reports.

While working for the major daily Asahi Shimbun, he reported on the mass killings committed under Cambodia's Pol Pot regime.

In Japan, he covered natural disasters such as eruptions of Mount Unzen's Fugen peak in Nagasaki Prefecture in the early 1990s, as well as protests against a project to relocate a U.S. military base from Ginowan, Okinawa, to the Henoko district in Nago, also Okinawa.

A documentary film about his life will be screened in many parts of Japan from Nov. 28 onward.

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